NS File format.

Andras Salamon andras at dns.net
Fri Jun 16 10:33:06 UTC 2000


On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 02:56:31PM -0400, Kevin Darcy wrote:
> As for examples of how *master* zone files "should" look, various people have
> different formatting styles. You could look at RFC 1035 for *one* formatting
> style. The _DNS_and_BIND_ from O'Reilly -- pretty much considered the
> DNS & BIND "bible" -- has various master file examples; I don't recall offhand
> what formatting style(s) are used in them. But, ultimately, use whatever
> format suits you best, as long as it is syntactically correct.

I've always been partial to Paul Vixie's style guide, originally posted
to comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains in 1994.
    http://www.dns.net/dnsrd/docs/style.txt

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